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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

California and Massachusetts have state minimum taxes, whereas states such as Alabama and Tennessee impose franchise tax based on capital/equity. Millias is the managing partner and co-founder of OUM & Co.

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First LGBTQ+ in Tech Forum Gathers DFW Community for Inspiring Conversations

Austin Startup

While this isn’t Capital Factory’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) event or initiative, this was the first of its kind in the DFW area and definitely not the last. Stacey is the co-founder of Lez Talk and Managing Director of Contact Center Experience at Charles Schwab. Check out our photo album.

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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

 —  @MissElisaS Cultural Syncism & Intersecting Technology with Humanities According to Hector Ruiz , Managing Director and Founder at ANSI Capital LLC, there is a lack of “Cultural Syncism” in the world today. Among Camilo’s list of traits that make a good manager, one stood out: Inclusive Environment.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I HirePlug.com.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. Next, Shirish Deodhar discussed InnovizeTech , an Indian company that has built software to capture how employees are spending their time in order to help manage and monitor productivity.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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Why Kickstarter and crowdfunding can’t replace traditional investors

The Next Web

The manufactured lock-picks snapped too easily, his backers started to turn on him, and soon he was being contacted by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. He never managed to start up a company, and now he’s back to working a day job and trying to fill his Kickstarter orders on the side. Traditional investors, however, can.